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Amazon Villagers Pursue Chevron’s Assets In Canada

by: Redeye Collective

Publication date: 2015-01-24

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: amazon, texaco, chevron, drilling, oil, environment, cancer, health, pollution, water, indigenous rights

Language: English

When Chevron bought Texaco in 2001, it inherited its liability for the devastation of Amazon rain forest in the late 1960s. Now Chevron is fighting to avoid paying billions of dollars in damages. Kevin Keonig is program director for Amazon Watch in Ecuador. He talks to Redeye host Jane Williams about the twists and turns in this 50-year-old fight for compensation.

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